[446] in java-interest
more on java vs. python
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (jsw@cs.brown.edu)
Thu Jun 22 15:17:26 1995
Date: Thu, 22 Jun 1995 14:46:56 -0400
From: jsw@cs.brown.edu
To: java-interest@java.sun.com
Reply-To: jsw@cs.brown.edu
One very useful feature about python is that it has an 'exec'
statement that allows you to execute python code contained in a string
as in:
>>> code="print 'hello world'"
>>> exec(code)
hello world
This is useful because you can use the exec statement to run any code
that you want while you have a program running. You can also run
python in the interactive mode and do the same thing. This makes
prototyping and interacting with your running application even easier.
When I first saw that java was interpreted, I thought that maybe it
would have the same feature, but now I realize that java code is still
compiled and only interpreted between the byte code to the machine
code.
Am I missing something, or is there a way that something similar can
be done in java?
thanks,
jeff
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